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Power expected to return by 7 p.m.
Power is out in northern and eastern Palo Alto because a tree branch fell on a line, the Utilities Department said today (Aug. 5). The outage was reported just before […]
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Palo Alto police will drop police radio encryption
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer After a 20-month battle, the Palo Alto Police Department is unencrypting its radios to once again allow the public to listen in to […]
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Man arrested on suspicion of burglarizing home while resident was home
By the Daily Post staff A man has been arrested after going into a Palo Alto home and rummaging around inside until the homeowner yelled at him to leave, police […]
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Business tax headed for the ballot
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council members voted tonight (Aug. 1) to put a business tax on the November ballot at their meeting next week. […]
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Workers blaming Pets in Need in criminal case over puppy deaths
By BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Three Pets in Need employees who are facing criminal charges for bringing a van full of dogs to the Palo Alto Animal Shelter on […]
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Binder named new police chief
By the Daily Post staff City Manager Ed Shikada has recommended that Acting Police Chief Andrew Binder, a 25-year veteran of law enforcement including seven years in Palo Alto, become […]
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Person killed on Caltrain tracks
A Caltrain struck and killed an unidentified person near West Meadow Drive at 4:47 p.m. Saturday (July 23). No word yet on whether the person intentionally stood in front of […]
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Vicki Veenker, former Assembly candidate and patent attorney, jumps into City Council race
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Lawyer Vicki Veenker, who lost a hotly contested race for state Assembly to Marc Berman, announced her campaign today (July 20) for Palo […]
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$12,000 taken from luluemon, four arrested
By the Daily Post staff Organized thieves frequently hit the lululemon stores in the Stanford Shopping Center and in downtown Palo Alto. On Sunday, police were able to arrest four […]
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Robbery attempted at University Ave. bus station
By the Daily Post staff A man in his 60s told police that he was threatened by a would-be robber who was riding a bike at the Palo Alto Transit […]
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6-story apartment complex proposed on El Camino
This story was first published in Saturday’s Daily Post. If you want to get the important local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. […]
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Police say a teen girl, high on drugs and alcohol, broke into house and laughed when owner told her to leave
By the Daily Post staff A runaway teen has been arrested after breaking into a home in Palo Alto while she was on drugs, police said. The 15-year-old entered a […]
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Housing development proposed behind Town and Country
This story first appeared in the Friday, July 1, print edition of the Daily Post. If you want to get the important local news first, pick up the Post in […]
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Pickpocket caught taking wallet out of purse
By the Daily Post staff The man and woman in this picture are suspected of trying to steal the wallet of a woman who was walking down El Camino Real […]
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Wife of former Los Altos City Manager paid to resign cities association to settle lawsuit
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Cities Association of Santa Clara County has reached a separation agreement with its former executive director, who is the wife of former […]
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Another possible candidate for City Council
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Another candidate has filed paperwork to explore a bid for Palo Alto City Council. Hope Lancero, 56, a medical researcher at Stanford, filed […]
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Higher pay lures Palo Alto police away
By BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is seeing an exodus of police officers leaving for higher pay, more opportunity and a shorter commute to […]
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Power restored to Stanford after three-day outage
Three days after a power outage knocked out electricity to nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in San Mateo County Tuesday — an outage that also included sprawling Stanford University — a […]
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Woman says rape by P.E. teacher in 2001 has led to life-long trauma
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A PE teacher who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in a locker room at Greene Middle School — before she was old enough […]
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Snubbed councilwoman votes against business tax; support dropping
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer After negotiations with business leaders went nowhere, the Palo Alto City Council has put off a decision until August on whether to put a […]